Expecting googlemock calls from another thread

Question

What will be the best way to write (google) test cases using a google mock object and expect the EXPECT_CALL() definitions being called from another thread controlled by the

Answer 1

Fraser's answer inspired me for a simple solution using a GMock specialized Action. GMock makes it very easy to quickly write such Actions.

Here's the code (excerpt from BarTest.cpp):

// Specialize an action that synchronizes with the calling thread
ACTION_P2(ReturnFromAsyncCall,RetVal,SemDone)
{
    SemDone->post();
    return RetVal;
}

TEST_F(BarTest, DoSomethingWhenFunc2Gt0)
{
    boost::interprocess::interprocess_semaphore semDone(0);
    EXPECT_CALL(fooInterfaceMock,func1())
        .Times(1);
    EXPECT_CALL(fooInterfaceMock,func2())
        .Times(1)
        // Note that the return type doesn't need to be explicitly specialized
        .WillOnce(ReturnFromAsyncCall(1,&semDone));

    bar.start();
    bar.triggerDoSomething();
    boost::posix_time::ptime until = boost::posix_time::second_clock::universal_time() +
            boost::posix_time::seconds(1);
    EXPECT_TRUE(semDone.timed_wait(until));
    bar.stop();
}

TEST_F(BarTest, DoSomethingWhenFunc2Eq0)
{
    boost::interprocess::interprocess_semaphore semDone(0);
    EXPECT_CALL(fooInterfaceMock,func1())
        .Times(1);
    EXPECT_CALL(fooInterfaceMock,func2())
        .Times(1)
        .WillOnce(Return(0));
    EXPECT_CALL(fooInterfaceMock,func3(Eq(5)))
        .Times(1)
        // Note that the return type doesn't need to be explicitly specialized
        .WillOnce(ReturnFromAsyncCall(true,&semDone));

    bar.start();
    bar.triggerDoSomething();
    boost::posix_time::ptime until = boost::posix_time::second_clock::universal_time() +
            boost::posix_time::seconds(1);
    EXPECT_TRUE(semDone.timed_wait(until));
    bar.stop();
}

Note the same principle will work well for any other kind of semaphore implementation as boost::interprocess::interprocess_semaphore. I'm using it for testing with our production code that uses it's own OS abstraction layer and semaphore implementation.